Alien (DVD) Reviews

Plot: A ship lands on an apparently deserted planet to investigate a strange signal. They pick up an unwelcome guest, which on their departure gradually starts to dispose of the crew members. The film follows their struggle to survive, attempts to catch/kill the creature, then finally their escape. One of the most inspirational ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1979 and directed by Ridley Scott, 'Alien' is centered around a group of 'truckers in space' who come across a strange, ancient-looking crashed alien spacecraft that is host to row upon row of giant eggs, whereupon one of the eggs opens and a grotesque hand-like creature attaches itself to the face of one of the explorers (John Hurt), ...  Read the complete review

This is the classic 1979 Horror movie that opened the door for a host of sequals, directed by Ridley Scott. The film is set in deep space on board a mining space ship(The Nostramo) that is on its way back to Earth, the crew have been asleep in hyper sleep on the journey back but are woken when the ship intercepts a distress signal from a ...  Read the complete review

Alien is a 1979 film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver and Ian Holm. In an unspecified future, the deep space mining vessel "The Nostromo" receives a distress signal on its return to Earth. The crew awake from their hyper sleep and investigate the source of the signal, which they find to be ...  Read the complete review

"In space, no-one can hear you scream." The famous tag line from the equally famous movie Alien. Directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1979 the film stars Sigourney Weaver as Lieutenant Ripley pitting her wits, along with her crew against a deadly alien. The film begins with the crew of the Nostromo emerging from ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears in part on Flixster and The Student Room Released in 1979, Alien is an extremely influential science fiction film and a remarkably crafted film, the very best one that Ridley Scott has ever made. It's one of my favourite films and a hallmark of the science fiction genre - it's violent and intense, but also quite ...  Read the complete review

I was about 11 when 'Alien' was released in 1979, and I remember all the hype surrounding it and the posters at the local ABC cinema with the tag 'In space no-one can hear you scream'. This sci-fi horror was rumoured to be terrifying and everyone was talking about the notorious 'chest-buster' scene. When I eventually watched it with my family ...  Read the complete review

A little over thirty years ago in a year commonly known as 1979 something a little odd happened, a director (Ridley Scott) brought together a strange rag tag bunch of bright young things (Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto) he gave them all metaphorical hammers with which ...  Read the complete review

It's quite a rarity nowadays to find a horror film that can really stand up on its own as a very good film however Alien is one of those rarities that does just that. A mining crew set out to what they believe is just an ordinary assignment soon find out there is in fact a much more serious ulterior motive to their space mission. Ripley (Sigourney ...  Read the complete review

Alien is one of the most iconic movies from the late seventies in the horror genre, although at the same time it is an intense suspense thriller, directed by Sir Ridley Scot, which focuses on the discovery of a new life form. The movie starts with the introduction to the space craft that is travelling through space and the occupants ...  Read the complete review

Alien. ==== Book written by Alan Dean Foster and Directed by Ridley Scott. And made way back in 1979, how time flies. This brilliant film is one of my all time favourites. Sci-Fi meets Horror but done with a touch of class. The spaceship, Nostromo, is heading back to Earth after a successful ...  Read the complete review

*** INTRODUCTION *** Alien is a 1979 sci-fi horror film directed by Brit Ridley Scott. It stars Sigourney Weaver in her first lead role and, as a result of the film's success, catapulted the actress into the public consciousness and did so virtually overnight. Briefly, the film centres on a small, terrified crew who, ...  Read the complete review

In my opinion, Alien is maybe the best science-fiction movie ever made. Througout the history of cinema, many movies are made with this theme a alien life form or beast is threatening a humankind in a claustrophobic environment. Alien provides both the natural fear of the unknown, and the feeling of beeing isolation and futility. The ...  Read the complete review

Alien. === A true classic and still as fresh today as when it was made in 1979. We follow the crew of the Nosromo, a deep space mining vessel as it has its return journey interupted by a unknown signal from an unexplored world. They investigate the signal and one of the crew ends up with his face covered by an alien ...  Read the complete review

The classic and definitive monster in space film. This is the first, and arguably the best, of the films about the monster designed by HR Geiger. The film is set in the fututre and sees some space truckers/miners be awoken from their hypersleep with orders to land on a nearby planet where there is a distress beacon. Upon landing they ...  Read the complete review

In the 1970s, space movies were neither popular, nor profitable. Two films changed that: Star Wars played the action card, whilst Alien explored the darker side of space travel. Unless you're really old (like me), it's difficult to understand now how ground-breaking Alien actually was when first released. From its story structure, ...  Read the complete review

This is a review of the Alien film on the UMD format, this fomat uses a much smaller disk and is viewed on a Sony PSP, this fact should not really alter the review by about the movie itself and would only really affect the sound and picture portions of the review. Movie: I have owned Alien (and others in the series) in many ...  Read the complete review

Ridley Scott's 1979 movie Alien is a true rarity, regarded as both a mastepiece in the genre of not only Science Fiction, but also Horror, the movie has also gained recognition from many mainstream critics for it's qualities, something that movies that fall into either genre, never mind both at once, find it increasingly difficult to do, ...  Read the complete review

The first movie in the quadrilogy. When this movie came out it really was the scariest film ever. People left cinemas around the world too scared to continue. Now however the scary moments are tame in comparison to some movies out there. That doesnt mean its not a good movie. You will still be scared. What alien does better than any other movie is ...  Read the complete review

Science fiction films traditionally offered us glimpses of a golden future age, all high tech gadgetry, silver domed cities, vast space ships and the promise of great things. Even films such as Star Wars for all its good verse evil struggle is an innocent pantomime set in a simplistically polarised, clean and clear cut world. The bad guys are bad ...  Read the complete review